Riga, 27 February 2015 – Held on 3-5 March in Riga, the 17th European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) Plenary Meeting will focus on the ELGPN Work Streams on career management skills and Quality-Assurance and Evidence-Base Framework (QAE Framework). Time will also be devoted to discuss future structured European cooperation on lifelong guidance policy development.

The evaluation of project proposals of the Research activity under the EEA/Norway Grants “Research and Scholarship” programme in Latvia (further – the programme) closed in January. The State Education Development Agency (further – the Agency) issued decisions on projects on 30th January.

The State Education Development Agency (SEDA) organises informative seminars on July 28 (at 10:00 a.m.) and August 4 (at 14:00 p.m.) on the submission of applications within the Research Activity under the EEA and Norway Grants’ Programme “Research and Scholarships”.

The overall objective of the Research Activity is to enhance research-based knowledge development in Latvia through research cooperation in basic and applied research between Norway and Latvia. The allocation available for projects is EUR 4,4 mill.

State Education and Development Agency (SEDA) informs that application round for Latvian Government scholarship competition for studies and research for the academic year 2014/2015 is completed. Number of applications received for scholarships for studies – 143, for fellowships for research – 12. Approved scholarships for studies – 63. Approved fellowships – 11.

Call for applications for participation in Riga Summer School 2014 – a hands-on documentary filmmaking program for jouralism, media and film students from all over the world – is now open. This year the Department of Communication Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Latvia organizes the summer school already for the fourth time. It will take place in the Latvian capital from August 3 – 17, 2014. The application deadline is April 30, 2014.

The State Education Development Agency (SEDA) is organising informative seminars on 14 and 25 November 2013 on the drafting of project proposals in the Preparatory visits’ activity under the EEA and Norway Grants 2009-2014.

Research Organizations from Latvia and accredited higher education institutions, including colleges, from Latvia, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway holding a valid Erasmus University Charter can obtain funding for preparatory visits, by participating in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Norwegian Financial Mechanism programme "Research and Scholarships" open call.

On 9-10 of October State Education Development Agency (Latvia) together with Centre for Educational Programmes, Archimedes Foundation (Estonia), Education Exchanges Support Foundation (Lithuania) organizes Baltic seminar for Erasmus coordinators.

On Friday, 11th of October, 2013 State Education Development Agency (LV) is organising international conference “Recognition of Prior Learning”. Representatives of higher education institutions as well as other interested parties are kindly invited to attend the event.

State Education and Development Agency (SEDA) informs that application round for Latvian Government scholarship competition for studies and research for the academic year 2013/2014 is completed. Number of applications received for Scholarships for studies – 157, for Fellowships for Research – 10. Total number of approved scholarships is 61.

Nordplus Nordic Languages has two guiding objectives; to support activities that improve language comprehension of the Nordic languages, primarily Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, among young people, as well as developing materials, methods and strategies for improving comprehension of the Nordic languages on all levels within the educational systems.

In order to better adapt the required academic profiles of the candidates to the target group of the Sciex Programme the Steering Committee has finally decided to introduce the following personal requirements in the application rules.